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INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
Ascent, a fresh project from Serbia, which he’s already making an impact!
ASCENT
PM: Hi there. Let’s start from the basics for
the people that dosn’t know you, Who you
are and where you’re from.
AS: Hello to everyone, i am Bojan and i am coming from a little town in Serbia called Krushevac.
PM: How you started with Psychedelic Trance
in the first placer?
AS: I’m in Music all my life. I’m coming from musician family and i was allways interested for
psychedelic music. My first contact with psychedelic music was 15 years ago. My dear friend
was on vacations and when he returned back
home, he brought me a double CD of Astral Projection /Sun Set-Sun Rise/ as gift. In that moment
i didn’t know for any psychedelic music. When
i play that CD my heart was filled with pleasure and joy. Mystical Goa sounds change my
life in seconds! From that moment i knew that i
will never stop listening this music. After that, i
found great old projects such as Shakta, Prana,
Goa Syndrome, etc. and made a fully enter of
psychedelic music in my mind. After years of listening, i become a DJ of psychedelic music and
started to play goa psytrance on festivals and
parties in Serbia. After great respond in my Dj
life, we established psy organisation called “Elgiva” with my friends and we started to make
great parties with great decoration in Serbia. Everything was beautiful!
PM: How you got involved with psytrance
production?
AS: My mind never stopped i was allways won-
PM: As a lot of people will reading us now,
are involved with Production themselfs,
speak us a little bit about the production
part of your tracks.
dering how that great people make this music
with milion psychedelic details and about 2008
i started to learn music production,and going
further with all this story. It was hard at the begining without internet and tutorials in that moment, but i was very persistent and with huge
love, i was learning slowly...
PM: How you see our scene today?
AS: Today scene is wide open, with a lot of projects and dj’s. I think that people get more and
more involved in psytrance music. Today we
have so many festivals all around the world and
think that every day we have more psytrance
parties also across the world, which i think is
very nice! Great way to connect people. Psytrance music is like a universal language!
PM: How is Serbian scene this days?
AS: I think that Serbian scene is very powefull
today. We have great Projects here, with amazing music production and serbian psychedelic is
very popular this days in all the globe.
PM: Is there any festival that you would like
to play and you didn’t till today?
AS: Festivals are something beautiful and indescribable in psytrance music. Every festival is
unique and have his own, specific vibe. I love to
play to festivals to share love with people and is
great expiriance for every artist. About Festivals i
didnt play, most favorite is Burning Mountain for
me! I would love to play there..
AS: Production is like bottomless pit! (laughs)It
never ends with learing. Primary, i love to focus
on strong kick and bass. Most of the time is flat,
in that way we get hypnotic effect on brain. It’s
rolling and never end’s! I dont follow the rules,
most of the time i play melodies and make flow
from my heart. I love wide open atmospheres
with a lot of reverb and delay. I have a lot of goa
influences in my music! I love to be mystical and
oriental with modern production. Love that Spiritualism in psytrance music. Is so wide!
PM: Any favorite DAW and/or VST’s this days?
AS: Of course! Today we have a lot of great Vst’s,
technology is going mad with the progress! For
me, Silenth is the best of the best. Simple Vst
but very powerfull! You have so many options.
To make your own unique preset is very simple!
You have great options for changing synthesis of
sounds, great glide and pitch.. It’s amazing Vst!
PM: Talk us a little about your releases? Any
new stuff “cooking”?
AS: My second full lenght album “Nature Creations” is released 15 days ago in Ovnimoon Records. I am very satified, feedback and support
from people is amazing, selling of Cd’s going
great in charts, everything is beautiful! With my
four projects and a couple collaborations with
friends and family going slowly but great, we are
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